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Excerpt from The General Principles of the Law of Contract in the Form of Rules: For the Use of Students
Positive law, in a collective sense, is the to tality of the rules of action which are enforce able by public authority. Positive law may be (1) international, or (2) national or state. The element of compulsion to obedience through the public force distinguishes the positive law from all others enumerated by jurists or moralists. International law, therefore, may be considered as positive law, inasmuch as its ultimate support is an appeal to arms. And although the appeal to arms may not be resorted to in every case, yet the fear Of incurring general hostility operates upon nations, keeping them within the rules of national comity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
